Tianyue No.1’s townhouse district is a rare, introverted villa enclave on the southern Fourth Ring of Beijing — quiet amid the bustle — created jointly by COFCO and Tianheng. Its distinctive sunken courtyards, participatory gardens, full-daylight system and modern-Oriental interiors return living to nature, safety and comfort. shard island’s film opens with the designer’s gentle first-person narration; calm, fresh and lyrical throughout, it invites the viewer to wander the spaces, converse with nature, sense the turning of the seasons, and rediscover the essence of living.
Qujiang Creative Valley — Theme Film
Qujiang Creative Valley is a new-type cultural-and-creative park jointly developed by Vanke Xi’an and Xi’an Qujiang Cultural Industry Investment (Group) Co., Ltd., conceived through the lens of “culture + design” and “culture + media,” forming a cultural-creative complex centred on creative experience.
For this theme film, shard island takes the journey from the growth of human culture to creativity as a driver of productivity as its starting point, weaving the project’s many formats throughout to present Qujiang Creative Valley as a destination defined by creative experience.
Qujiang Creative Valley — Retail Tour Film
Qujiang Creative Valley is a new-type cultural-and-creative park jointly developed by Vanke Xi’an and Xi’an Qujiang Cultural Industry Investment (Group) Co., Ltd., conceived through the lens of “culture + design” and “culture + media.” Drawing on the hallmarks of the world’s landmark cultural complexes, it centres on creative experience — with creative offices and creative retail at its core — and weaves in hotels, apartments and other complementary formats to form a single cultural-creative complex.
For this retail tour film, shard island makes full use of the architecture and the shifting light and colour across the day, setting the project within varied scenes and circulation routes to convey its visual beauty and sense of atmosphere.
Vanke Yantaishan
Vanke Expo Legacy Plan
“Dragon Plan” is initiated by seven organization and enterprises, which are Vanke group, the National Heritage Board of Shanxi province, Ruicheng County government, Taiyuan Vanke, URBANUS, Architectural Design & Research Institute of Tsinghua University and Shanxi Youth daily. It is the first public financing project, which aims to reuse the legacy of 2015 Milan Expo Vanke Pavilion to fund the environmental renovation project of Guangrenwang Temple in Ruicheng county Shanxi province.
Vanke Songhua Resort 2017
Vanke Songhua Resort is located at the foot of Daqingshan mountain, Songhua Lake, Jilin province, which is a high-end ski resort with top equipment, scientific planning, intimate service, co-created by Vanke Group and Japanese
Prince Hotel in the northern river city of China. the project will help Beijing to bid for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, realize “China Dream” of winter sports, facilitate the winter sports’ popularization and promotion, as well as the transfer and upgrade China’s leisure and vacation industry.
Shard Island as a quality service partner of Vanke, once created the first 3D promotional film for Vanke Songhua Lake Resort in 2014, and achieved a good promotional effect, Shard Island was invited to film and create a new promotional film again in 2017, for the full range marketing of Vanke Songhua Lake Resort.
Zhuhai Aviation Park
Zhuhai Aviation Park is designed by the world famous corporation Cuningham, Shard Island is commissioned to generate the 9-minute film to introducing its planning. The animation is narrated by it’s chief designer Rick Solberg, with the dream of the designer as the clue, presenting each of its key attractions, and combining the experience of tourists into the film. The film takes 60 days to create, and is well received by the Cuningham and AVIC.
viewing platform of Songhua Lake Resort – Sen’s Stage
Sen’s stage is the work of young architect Shuo, built at the top of Songhua Lake, Jilin Province. Sen’s Stage, as its name, after considering the resort’s topography and landscape characteristics comprehensively, the architect strived to make the design of the stage to maximize the landscape, and built a multi-functional landscape platform with personalized charm, so that allow more people to feel the spirit of nature.
At the invitation of META-PROJECT, Shard Island filmed for Sen’s stage, assisted Meta Studio to participate in 2017 Polish international Architecture Biennale.